NEW EXAMPLES OF SANDWICH GRAVITATIONAL-WAVES AND THEIR IMPULSIVE LIMIT

Authors
PODOLSKY J VESELY K
Citation
J. Podolsky et K. Vesely, NEW EXAMPLES OF SANDWICH GRAVITATIONAL-WAVES AND THEIR IMPULSIVE LIMIT, Czechoslovak journal of Physics, 48(8), 1998, pp. 871-878
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Czechoslovak journal of Physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00114626
Volume
48
Issue
8
Year of publication
1998
Pages
871 - 878
Database
ISI
SICI code
0011-4626(1998)48:8<871:NEOSGA>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
Non-standard sandwich gravitational waves are constructed from the hom ogeneous pp vacuum solution and the motions of free test particles in the space-times are calculated explicitly. They demonstrate the causti c property of sandwich waves. By performing limits to impulsive gravit ational wave it is demonstrated that the resulting particle motions ar e identical regardless of the ''initial'' sandwich.